“A novel approach for building a forecasting model based on quantitative and qualitative data” (ongoing PhD thesis) by H. A. Pathberiya, joint supervision by Dr.Chandima Tilakeratne, University of Colombo, Dr. Liwan Liyanage, Department of Mathematics, University of Western Sydney, Australia and Dr. R. S. Lokupitiya, Department of Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.